Professor Christopher McDermott MBChB FRCP PhD

Research Interests

The main drive of Prof McDermott’s research programme is developing the evidence base for delivering supportive and symptomatic care for patients living with motor neuron disease. He is also interested in studying mechanisms of neurodegeneration, in order to develop treatments for patients with motor neuron disease and hereditary spastic paraplegia.

Current Projects

Current Projects

Investigating optimal respiratory support for patients with MND

Establishing an evidence base for nutritional support in MND

Designing and evaluating assistive technologies for patients with neuromuscular weakness

Developing and evaluating novel service delivery mechanisms for patients with long term neurological conditions

Home Mechanical Ventilation Meeting, St Thomas Hospital, London – Role of Diaphragmatic Pacing

Palliative Care Symposium, Leeds – Living with MND

MNDA AGM – Developing the evidence base for clinical care in MND

2011

Association of British Neurologists meeting – Clinical advances in MND

European federation of neurological sciences, Lisbon – MND and its mimics

2010

European Federation of Neurological Sciences, Rhodes - Lump or Split?

MNDA Birmingham – Diaphragmatic Pacing in MND

Nutrition Course, Leeds – Nutrition in MND

2009

Leeds MNDA centre opening – Hereditary spastic paraparesis

Biography

Prof McDermott studied for his medical degree at the University in Leeds graduating in 1994. He then continued is general medical and specialist neurology training in Leeds before taking up a clinical research training fellowship at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He moved to the University of Sheffield with Professor Dame Pamela Shaw in 2000 to undertake his Wellcome Trust Research Training PhD Fellowship and to complete his Specialist Training in Neurology to become a Consultant Neurologist in 2006. Prof McDermott is now the Professor of Translational Neurology at SITraN and a Consultant Neurologist at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust regularly undertaking specialist MND and neuromuscular clinics in Sheffield.

2018 - Present Professor of Translational Neurology Head of Department